File size question
Gentlemens (and ladies if there be any ....),
A friend has recently contacted me with questions regarding a 90 page MS word document which he is presently polishing, and its eventual distribution as an attachment(s) within a Yahoo group which I manage . Unfortunately he doesn't know the current size of the file, and I've asked him to establish that for me, however it seems probable that it will have to be split into smaller servings anyway.
As a broad principle, if the final document is saved as a pdf file (something which I understand is possible with later versions of Word - there may be other ways of doing it) will the size of the file be smaller than the original .doc file - or larger - or about the same size anyway??
There is a certain - perhaps ill-founded - preference for distributing it in pdf format anyway, but if there is a significantly smaller file size involved - all else being equal - this may well tip the scales in that direction.
Thanks for any guidance on this,
FoR